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Title	[Portrait of Helen Allegrone, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Formal portrait of Helen Allegrone, a member of the Navy WAVES 1943-1945.
Veteran's name	Allegrone, Helen Russell
Veteran's biography	Helen R. Allegrone (1921-2009) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, served in cryptography in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from March 1943 until 1945 . Helen Russell Allegrone was born in 1921 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father was city mayor and her grandfather was the state governor. She attended Barnard College in New York for one year, then graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge in January 1943." In March 1943, Allegrone joined the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). She attended basic training at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and was then assigned to the research department in cryptography in Washington, D.C. Allegrone was discharged from the WAVES as a lieutenant in the fall of 1945 . In February 1946, Helen married Charlie Allegrone, and they had four children together. She later earned a teaching certificate at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and taught at all-black Hampton Elementary School. In 1990, Allegrone ran for Congress, but was defeated by Howard Coble. Allegrone died on 9 October 2009.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0062 Helen Allegrone Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0062.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900810938

[Portrait of Helen Allegrone, circa 1944]

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